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Engstrom1 wrote:
> 
> I have semi succesfully installed Red Hat Linux 5.2 on my intel pentium 200
> machine.  I say semi because I was unable to activate WidowsX with my Trident
> 9750 video card, unable to get my sound, printer will not print, and modem is
> not working either.  Now I have visited Redhat.com and in the hardware
> compatibility area it says that if it is not listed it is not supported.  None
> of the above hardware was listed on redhats web page. I am wondering if anyone
> has had success in getting any of the following hardware to work properly and
> how they have accomplished it.
> 
> The video card is a Trident AGP bus 9750 3D card with 4mb ram.  I have
> installed a Cirus Logic 5430/40 PCI card and WindowsX runs.  I am trying to get
> the AGP card to work as I run programs under MS Windows that require a 3D card.

You are there with this one the version of X supplied with redhat is
3.3.2 which does not support AGP. However I think that the new 3.3.3
version does. So its of the the X Free 86 home pages to get a copy .
 
> 
> The sound on my system comes from an onboard sound system. The motherboard is a
> Topgun 5571.  If anyone has had luck getting the sound to work here I would
> like to know how.  I do have sound working with the PC speaker but it lacks
> quality.

This does not sound good. I guess you tryed using the Redhat sound
utility I think its called soundconf. If you have then you could look at
the comercial version of the oss. I cant remember the URL but if you go
to freshmeats apendix area and do a serch it will give you a link to the
home page. There you will find a free trial version. If it workd a full
licens only cost us$20. Make sure you get the right version for your
kernal number.

> 
> The printer is an HP Deskjet 820Cse Pro.  I have tried all the available
> deskjet versions included with Red Hat 5.2 but non seem to work.  I do not see
> any signals being sent to my printer either.  The data light stays off when I
> try to print. I am printing fine under MS windows so I a sure my connection is
> working fine.  Help!!!  I need to print man pages to figure out this whole
> linux thing.

This sounds like a problem with your configeration rather than with the
driver. Check that there the parellell port module is in the kernel
(Maybe you forget to include it at during the install?. Then check that
you have selected the right port. The other posibility is that this is a
"Built for Windoz printer" if this is the case there aint no way its
ever going to work anywhere except in windows.
 
> Finally my modem is a Diamond SupraMax 56i voice PCI.  Can it work?  Is there
> any bbs in the 303 area code I could check out?  I don't think i would be able
> to connect to aol under linux,  am i right?  Any help would be greatly
> apprieciated.

Internal modems are notoriasly hard to set up. Again many of them are
made for windoze and wont work anywhere else. Sell it and bye a nice
external modem. And your right AOL software only works in windoze so
dump them and get a real service provider.

I hope this is of some small help.

Pete
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> David Engstrom
> United Press
> 
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